Bernie Sanders is threatening to repeat the tactics he used in 2016, when he called the process “rigged” and withheld his support for Hillary Clinton until long after the outcome was decided. jonathanchait writes
Bernie Sanders. Photo: Saul Loeb/AFP/Getty Images NBC’s Kasie Hunt asked Bernie Sanders if he would commit to supporting the Democratic nominee before the convention if it’s clear it won’t be him. Sanders would not make any such commitment. Instead, he said, “some people say that maybe if the system was not rigged against me, I would have won the nomination.”
In 2016, Hillary Clinton won the nomination as the clear preference of the majority of her party’s electorate. She won 55 percent of the primary vote, as opposed to just 43 percent for Sanders, which is not an especially narrow margin. It is not true that the Democratic Party “rigged” the contest in any illegitimate or nefarious fashion. Russian hackers found some emails from staffers at the Democratic National Committee favoring Clinton, but the committee did not take important steps to materially impair Sanders. Throughout the primary, some real supporters of Sanders often claimed improprieties at the polls, but those largely failed to pan out.
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